Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian
Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Node.js is becoming quite popular and is known generally to use "node"
>> in its hash-bang.
> Seriously? People are writing scripts that start
> #!node
The #! part is really not the issue, since the two packages don't conflict
there (the ham radio one is in /usr/sbin).
However, Googling for Node.js tutorials and documentation actually reveal
that people usually *don't* use #!, which would avoid the conflict, and
instead run "node <file>". Which means when both packages are installed,
which node they get depends on what their PATH looks like, which is the
sort of conflict that we try to avoid.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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